Footage of sudden strong winds hitting a beach in San Sebastian, BAC, Spain.

In the footage, captured on Zurriola beach on Friday, people can be seen trying to protect themselves from sand spray as they pack up their towels and surfboards.

Footage of sudden strong winds hitting a beach in San Sebastian, BAC, Spain.

In the footage, captured on Zurriola beach on Friday, people can be seen trying to protect themselves from sand spray as they pack up their towels and surfboards.

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Gale Zurriola beach in San Sebastian (Basque Country)
A gale is a sudden and violent storm with strong wind from west to northwest often whip areas of the Cantabrian Sea and the Bay of Biscay usually in the spring and summer. Its name comes from the French galerne and this Breton Gwalarn, word for this wind northwest.
It is included within the so-called Trapped Disturbances on the Coast (PAC Trapped in English Coastal Disturbance). They appear in warm and peaceful days when the arrival of a cold front is accompanied by a sudden change in wind direction and intensity of which can exceed 100 km / h. The sky darkens and a sharp drop in temperature up to 12 ° C in 20 minutes, a rapid decrease in atmospheric pressure and an increase in the relative humidity is close to 100% occurs. The sea can become thick with mountain and all a short but intense rains are added.